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Vol. 46
No. 8
February,
1953
THE GAZETTE
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INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
J
ames
R . Q
uirke
Vice-Presidents
J
ohn
C
arrigan
J
ames
J . O ’C
onnor
Secretary
E
ric
A .
P
lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT
If you have not already taken out
and stamped your practising certifi
cate you should do so immediately.
The final date for stamping certificates
in time was 5th February, 1953. A
late certificate must be produced to
the Society for noting within one
month o f stamping and will be
effective for the purpose o f taxation
o f costs only from the date o f such
production.
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
29-ra J
anuary
, 1953.
The President in the Chair.
Also present: Messrs. John Carrigan and James J.
O’Connor, Vice-Presidents; Messrs. Sean O
hUadhaigh, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Francis J. Gearty,
Thomas A. O’Reilly, John Maher, Peter E .
O’Connell, Francis J. Lanigan, John J. Nash,
Reginald J. Nolan, Patrick R. Boyd, Patrick F.
O’Reilly, John R. Halpin, George G. Overend,
Ralph Walker, William J. Norman, Desmond J.
Collins, John J. Sheil, Joseph Barrett, Charles J.
Downing, Henry St. J. Blake, Desmond J. Mayne,
Dermot P. Shaw, Arthur Cox, Cornelius J. Daly.
The following was among the business transacted :
Lease. Incidence o f costs
O
n
a report from a Committee on a submission
to arbitration, the Council held that a lease of
property for a term o f 99 years, at a fine o f £ 1,0 10
subject to the yearly rent o f £50, the lease contain
ing a covenant by the lessee to expend not less
than £2,000 in the erection of buildings, was
substantially a sale, and that in accordance with the
decision o f Mr. Justice Dixon in Simms-Clarke
v. Ilet Ltd., reported in the Society’s
G
azette
for July/August, 1952, the lessee, in the absence